Moira Kelly (31 January 1964) is an Australian humanitarian worker.
She is the legal guardian of four orphaned children: Trishna and Krishna Bangladeshi conjoined twins (since separated with surgery), and Iraqi-born Emmanuelle and Ahmed Mustafa who were found in a shoe box in a park.
Emmanuelle tells his story and sings on the XFactor in this video (warning: get tissues before watching, seriously):
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2012-05-11
Posted in Profiles & Bios
Guest blog post by Brenda Slavin.
Why do we hold ourselves hostage to rules that don’t really even exist? Day after day we play out conforming to rules that we ourselves have created which only hold us back.
Some of these “rules” have been instilled into us. Not only by our upbringing and influences, also by our society and the media. We follow them habitually never giving much thought to if they make sense to what is right for us as individuals.
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2012-05-07
Posted in AWR Guest Blogs
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2012-05-04
Posted in Pearls of Wisdom
Haya bint Al Hussein (3 May 1974) is one of King Hussein I of Jordan's daughters and a wife of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
She generally describes herself as Her Royal Highness Princess Haya of Jordan (Arabic: ھيا), a title derived from her father.
Princess Haya represented Jordan in the 2000 Summer Olympics in show jumping. She was also her country’s flag bearer.
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2012-05-03
Posted in Profiles & Bios
Article by Joe Glickman.
No stretch of water on the planet is as feared as the legendary passage around Cape Horn.
Its gale-force winds, rogue waves, icebergs and summertime blizzards have sunk more than 800 ships.
Freya Hoffmeister intended to paddle around it, and was 2,333 miles into her attempt to become the first person to circumnavigate South America by kayak.
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2012-05-02
Posted in Women Worldwide